U.S. retailers’ September same-store sales topped analysts’ estimates, led by discount and specialty-apparel chains that benefited from back-to-school shopping, while department stores trailed projections.

“The winner of the group is TJX,” Ron Friedman, head of retail and consumer products at accounting firm Marcum LLP, said in an interview today. “They’re where everyone was last year, but they’re still there, and nobody else is there really. They had the right product, they hit the kids for back to school.”

Marcum LLP's experience within the Healthcare industry covers the full continuum of care with a special focus within the post-acute care geriatric segments of the industry, hospitals and physician practices.

Much of the Marcum seminar focused on the taxation differences between C‐corps and pass‐through entities, which include partnerships, S‐corporations, limited liability companies and sole proprietorships.

Marcum LLP led the accounting industry with more net new SEC audit clients in the fourth quarter of 2017 than any other accounting firm in the U.S. In a period when only one other public accounting firm showed growth, with a single net new client, Marcum registered six net new clients in the final quarter of the year.

Marcum LLP is one of the largest independent public accounting and advisory services firms in the nation, with offices in major
business markets throughout the U.S., as well as Grand Cayman, China and Ireland.